Profile Evaluation : Ask Square One Prep

Hi Team,

Thanks for taking out time to go through my profile.

1. Demographic: 26/M/Indian
2. Education Qualification
- Undergraduate: Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering and Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Hamirpur. Tier 1 college.
-GPA- 8/10 on the scale of 10.

3. GMAT
- 710 (Q49, V37)

4. Work Experience
- Overall: 29 months
- Organization:Newgen Software Technologies Limited
- Industry: IT
- Role: Software Design Engineer-2. Developed Software suite for Banking and Financial Organisations. Coordinating with clients for post release feature updates. Provided training for newly recruits and 3 persons were reporting to me. Also organized task distribution and track tasks for the team.

I left my job in December 2022.

Meanwhile I am looking after my father's business with him as I wanted to have hands on experience in dealing with clients and also managing the workforce. We have Tyre Retreading Plant and deal with sales of new tyres for passenger and hevy category vehicles.

6. Extra-curricular activites and volunteer work:
- I was coordinator of Finance Club (Cultural and Technical fest) in college.
-Participated in Intra-college snooker competition.
- Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) in college.
- I am also volunteering for an NGO named Almighty Blessings which provides free ambulance service for patients here in my hometown. It also provides free food(lunch and dinner) for all the patients and their attendants at Medical College here in my hometown and also organises blood donation camps.

5. Post MBA goals
-Strategy and Consulting
-Finance

6.List of 5 schools I have sent the score:
- Rotman
- Kelly
- Tepper
- Kenan Flagler
- USC Marshall

7. Questions

- What are my chances of conversion for target colleges with scholarship.
- What are the colleges that I can add to this list.
- Will there be negative impact given the gap in work experience and can it be covered by showing participation in family business and volunteer work.
- How can I improve my profile.

Regards,
Shikhin Gupta